On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 02:23:26PM -0400, Ali Ijaz Sheikh wrote: > I have been a silent reader of this mailing list for sometime now. I am > an undergrad cs student and I'll be starting work on the my Honours project > requirement soon. Plainly put, I am looking for a project to work on! > I have looked at the Debian-Hurd task list, but am not sure if it is updated > or > not. > > Do you guys have any suggestions? anything that would be really useful > that you don't have yet? (apart from ppp ;-). pthreads?
The most useful contribution is the one that is really done. In other words, don't bite off more than you can chew ;) and we don't know where your strengths are so making a recommendation is hard. This said, I think Mark is currently not continuing his pthread work, and pthreads would be very useful. I don't know if he made his latest snapshot available, something is at alpha.gnu.org/gnu/hurd/contrib/kettenis/pthreads. However, there are other projects. So many in fact, I can't count them here. I don't even know which one would fit for a Honours project. Some nifty translator, SMP support, features needed for distributed systems, I don't know. Maybe those are a bit too hard. You tell us ;) Also, improving oskit is worth a lot (I say character devices). Or ... Hope this was at least a bit inspiring. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de
